Pallet.



PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

C. S. LONG. PALLET.

APPLICATION FILED JET-13.17, 1906.

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WITNESSES ANDREW. u Qnmm PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

0. S. LONG.

PALLET.

APPLICATION FILED 33.17, 1906.

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WJTNESSESI UNITED STATES I CHARLES s. LONG, oF'AURo A, ILLINOIS.

PALLET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

Application filed February 17, 1906. Serial No. 301,655.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CILARLEs S. LONG, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illi nois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pallets, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to pallets particularly intended for use in connection with apparatus for molding concrete or other bases upon fence-posts.

The object of the invention is the production of a pallet in which the base of a composite fence-post may be molded by suitable apparatus and which maybe removed from said apparatus, together with the fence-post therein, and set aside until the concrete base has hardened.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of a molding apparatus with which my improved pallet is adapted to be used. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through said molding apparatus, taken on the plane of dotted line X X of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through said apparatus on dotted line Y Y of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of a pallet embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of said pallet. Fig. 6 is a detail view of a clamp comprised in said pallet, and Fig. 7 is a transverse section through the pallet on dotted line Z of Fig. 5.

The embodiment herein shown of my invention is particularly adapted for use with the molding apparatus shown in Patent No. 807,833, granted to me on December 19,1905; but it will be understood that the pallet may be readily modified for use with molds of different constructions without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, A designates the molding apparatus above referred to. It comprises a base A, having a mold-cavity A formed therein, removable sides and ends A and the plunger A, the latter having a mold-cavity A in its lower face. Suitable means, such as the eccentrics A, is provided for applying pressure to the material placed within the mold. The interior form of the mold-cavities A and A corresponds to the form which it is desired to give the base, said mold-cavities in the present instance being each substantially semicylindrical. A is a seat in one end of the base A for supporting the fence-post proper.

In the form of my invention herein shown the pallet comprises a semicylindrical body portion 1, adapted to fit within the moldcavityv A To each of the upper side edges of said body portion is fixed a bar 2, said bars extending beyond one end of said body portion and the projecting ends being connected by means of a bolt 3. 'A sleeve 4 surrounds the bolt '3 and, with the projecting ends of the bars 2, forms a handle for the pallet.

' At the opposite end of the body portion 1 the bars 2- eXtend beyond said body portion a suitable distance toward their outer ends, being bent to approach each other. At their outer ends the bars 2 are provided with means for engaging the metallic upright a, comprised in the finished fence -post. In the present instance said engaging means consists of a clamp 5, comprising the jaws 6, connected together at one end by a bolt 7 or other suitable fastening and at their opposite ends being fixed to the ends of the bars 2. Means is provided for drawing the jaws 6 together to clamp the upright a between them. As herein shown, said means comprises a bolt 8, extending through openings (not shown) in the jaws 6 and having a nut 9 turned upon one of itsends outside of the adjacent jaw 6. To its other end is rotatably connected an eccentric 10 arranged to bear against the adj acent jaw 6, said eccentric having an operating-handle 1 1.

In use the sides and ends A and the plunger A havin been removed from the machine, the pa let is set in position with the body portion 1 within the lower mold-cavity A The bar a, forming the upright of the fence-post, is then put in place, a suitable portion of the length of said bar lying within the mold and the body portion 1 of the pallet, and said bar being supported in the seat A Suit able means (not herein shown) is provided for holding the bar a, in a substantially central position, while allowing saidbar to move slightly when pressure is placed upon the material being molded. The sides and ends A are then replaced, and the material from which the base is to be formed is put in the body portion 1 of the pallet and between the sides and ends A completely surrounding the end of the bar a. The plunger A is then replaced and pressure applied by means of the eccentric-s A, causing the mass within the mold to assume a shape corresponding to the interior conformation of said mold. After sufficient pressure has been applied the clamp 5' is applied, causing the metal upright to be firmly held in the concrete base. may now be opened and the pallet, with the completed fence-post therein, lifted from the machine by means of the handle 4 and the side bars 2 and set aside until the base of the fence-post has hardened. After a suitable lapse of time the clamp 5 is disengaged from the fence-post and sald fence-post removed from the pallet. Any suitable or preferred means may be used for preventing adhesion of the base of the fence-post to the body por-' tion 1 v v Iclaim as my invention y v 1 A pallet for use in molding plastic material uponan article, having a body portion to receive thepla'stic material, and a clamp for engagingthe article. v v v 2. A pallet for use in molding plastic material upon an, article, comprising a body portion for receiving the plastic material, a handle at one end of said body portion, projecting means at the other end of said body portion adapted to serve as a handle,-and means The mold hole. I

6;; saidprojecting means for engaging the ar- V A pallet comprising a body portion in receptacle form, side members fixed to and projecting from said body portion, and a receptac e form, two side bars fixed to and projecting from said body portion, and a clamping device comprising a jaw fixed to each of said side bars.- 1 pallet comprising ai bodf portiofiin ep a la' wf w s d a ir W a d body portion and extending its opposite ends, the ends ofsaid bars at one en'd o'f the body portion being joined warm 5. han'dle,; and a clamping device comprisinga aw fixed to the opposite end of each" of said sidebars;

i CHARLES S. LONG." Witnesses:

WIL A P R GEORGE LIOHVIIN'DAI'UL. 

